FGL in Bilbao:
El Liberal
(Bilbao), April 16 and 17, 1929, 1; “García Lorca en el Ateneo,”
El Pueblo Vasco
, April 16, 1929, 1; EC, 604–5.
“It could earn me lots”:
EC, 602–3.
FGL’s father talks to Martínez Nadaclass="underline"
Martínez Nadal,
Cuatro lecciones
, 33–34. Another friend of FGL’s, Santiago Ontañón,
believed that Don Federico was aware of his son’s involvement with Emilio Aladrén and deliberately sent FGL to New York to remove him from Aladrén’s influence. “Don Federico was no fool,” said Ontañón.
“elegant lecturer’s outfit … as a lecturer”:
EC, 606.
De los Ríos agrees to accompany FGL:
See
Defensor de Granada
, June 11, 1929, 1.
“I find myself full of responsibility”:
“En el hotel Alhambra Palace. En homenaje a Margarita Xirgu y Federico García Lorca,”
Defensor de Granada
, May 7, 1929, 1, in
OC
, III, 195.
Mariana Pineda
produced in Granada and “the frail work of a beginner”:
Defensor de Granada
, April 23, 28, and 30, 1929; May 3 and 4, 1929. AFFGL contains a clipping of Francisco Oriol Catena’s review of
Mariana Pineda
, “Impresiones. ‘Mariana Pineda,’”
Defensor de Granada
, May 3, 1929.
FGL and Xirgu attend banquet and “If by the grace … incandescent joy”:
“En el hotel Alhambra Palace. En homenaje a Margarita Xirgu y Federico García Lorca,”
Defensor de Granada
, May 7, 1929, 1, in OC, III, 194–96.
“Keep it or tear it up,” “New York seems horrible,” and “Papa … practical life”:
EC, 612.
FGL leaves Spain:
Defensor de Granada
, June 9, 1929;
La Gaceta Literaria
(Madrid), June 15, 1929, 6;
La Voz
(Madrid), June 14, 1929;
Heraldo de Madrid
, June 14, 1929; and
G, I
, 607.
“Onward!”:
EC, 611.
14. New World: 1929–30
“She’s a bourgeois”:
G, I
, 607, and Río, “Federico García Lorca,” 204. On FGL in Paris see also Mathilde Pomès, “Españoles en París. [XIV. Federico García Lorca,”
ABC
(Madrid), November 22, 1967.
FGL in London:
G, I
, 608–11; Río,
Vida y obras
, 37; Río, “Federico García Lorca,” 204; Salvador de Madariaga, “Tres estampas de Federico García Lorca,” in
De Galdós a Lorca
(Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1960), 221.
“I don’t know why”:
EC, 614.
“black as blackest”:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 205. Except where noted, all quotations from FGL’s letters home from the United States are taken from “The Poet Writes”; the letters appear in Spanish in
EC
, 613–88.
“into the belly … the ocean”:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 205–6.
FGL arrives in New York:
The date of FGL’s arrival appears on page 8 of FGL passport, AFFGL. For FGL’s response to arrival see FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 205–6, and FGL, “Lecture: A Poet in New York,” 185.
New York City, 1929:
See, in particular, Robert A. M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins, with David Fishman and Raymond W. Gastil,
New York
1930. Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars (New York: Rizzoli, 1987). Among many Spaniards to publish their impressions of New York in the 1920s and early 1930s was FGL’s old Residencia colleague José Moreno Villa, whose 1927 book
Pruebas de Nueva York
offered a dismaying account of the “violent” American city. FGL was also familiar with the French writer Paul Morand’s
New-York
(1930) (Leslie Stainton, ‘“¡O Babilonia! O Cartago! O Nueva York!’: El europeo ante Manhattan, Manhattan ante el europeo,”
BFFGL 10
(February 1992), 192–211).
FGL enrolls in Columbia:
Eisenberg,
Textos y documentos
, 21; FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 207, 215–16, 224; Adams, 91, 119.
FGL visits Times Square:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 208–9.
FGL’s initial response to America:
In general, see FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 206–8; FGL, “Lecture: A Poet in New York,” 187–88; Adams, 120–21; and Crow, 44. On FGL’s reaction to Prohibition see Adams, 126–27, and FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 245, 273. On his response to the Protestant faith see FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 219–21. On his reaction to Americans see Crow, 6; and FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 233–34.
“shishpil”:
Eisenberg, “Cuatro Pesquisas,” 536. On sexual mores in America and FGL’s response to American sexuality, see Crow, 4; Luis de Oteyza’s novel
Anticípolis
, 101, 226–27; and John K. Walsh, “The Social and Sexual Geography of Poeta en Nueva York,” in C. Brian Morris, ed.,
“Cuando yo me muera …” Essays in Memory of Federico García Lorca
(Lanham, M.D.: University Press of America, 1988).
FGL’s buoyant letters home:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 206, 224–25.
FGL teaches popular songs:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 216–17; Río,
Poeta en Nueva York
, 259.
FGL’s inability to learn English:
Adams, 119–21; Río, “Federico García Lorca,” 228; Eisenberg,
Textos y documentos
, 20; FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 217–18, 222; Andrew A. Anderson, “Una amistad inglesa de García Lorca,”
Insula
462 (May 1985), 3–4; Diers, 27–28; Ontañón, “Semblanza”; and Daniel Solana, “Federico García Lorca,”
Alhambra
(New York), vol. 12 (August 1929), 24.
Sofía Megwinoff tutors FGL:
Daniel Eisenberg, introduction to FGL, Songs, 11; FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 215–16; Eisenberg, “Cuatro Pesquisas,” 533–536; “Lorca in New York,” WGBH-TV, Boston (May 10, 1986).
Description of FGL in New York:
Río,
Vida y obras
, 37, and AFFGL.
FGL feigns lameness:
Eisenberg, “Cuatro Pesquisas,” 537.
“I don’t see much”:
FGL, “The Poet Writes,” 222.
FGL attends
tertulias:
Author interview with Amelia Agostini del Río; B. Bussell Thomson and J. K. Walsh, “Un encuentro de Lorca y Hart Crane en Nueva York,”
Insula
479 (October 1986), 1; author interview with Angel Flores.
FGL visits Hart Crane:
B. Bussell Thomson and J. K. Walsh, “Un encuentro de Lorca y Hart Crane en Nueva York,”
Insula 479
(October 1986), 1; author interview with Angel Flores.
“terrific poet”:
Author interview with Angel Flores.